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F. D. TAYLOR.

BOTTLE STOPPER.

Patented 9, 1886.

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FREDERICK D. TAYLOR, OF HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO THE HARTFORD FRUIT J AR COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

BOTTLE-STOPPER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 337.458, dated March 9, 1886.

Application tiled December 31, 1885. Serial No. 187,219. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I,A FREDERICK D. TAYLOR, of Hartford, in the county of Hartford and State of Connecticut, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Bottle and Jar Stoppers, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, whereby any one skilled in the art can make and use the same.

My improvement relates to the class of stoppers that are attached more or less permanently tothe bottle, and are adapted to be swung into position so as to close the bottle, or temporarily to one side to open the bottle.

The object of my improvement is to provide a cheap, simple, and effective device that shall be particularly adapted for use on bottles or cans intended to contain milk, although its use is not limited by the particular character of the contents of thejar or'bottle.

My improvement consists of a swinging bail with its pivots held in sockets in or on diametrically-opposite sides of the bottle-neck, with a bowed portion adapted to swing directly over the mouth of the bottle and supporting a screw hinged thereto by an opening through its head or stem, and a stopper having a central threaded socket that enables it to be fitted upon the threaded shank of the screw, and in details of the construction and combination of the several parts, as more particularly hereinafter described, and pointed out in the claims.

. Referring to the drawings, Figure 1 is a front view of the upper part of a bottle iitted with my improved device, and shown with the stopple in position, sealing the bottle. Fig. 2 is a side view of the same, showing the stopper lifted to open or unseal the bottle, and showing in dotted outline the position of the stopper when swung aside to give access to the mouth of the bottle. Y Fig. 3 is a detail view of the several parts or elements making up the stopper, the wire frame or bail and the screw being shown in elevation and the stopper in central section. Fig. 4 is a view in central section of an alternate form of stopple.

In the accompanying drawings, the lettera denotes a bottle or jar,of any desirable material-as glassand having on diametricallyopposite sides of the neck the pivot-sockets b, that are preferably formed in the substance of particular form of the socket or the means by which it is held at a xed distance from the mouth of the bottle are not material to my improvement.

The bail c is made,preferably,of wire, with pivots c,for med by bending the ends inward, and the side parts of the bail of alength to a1- low the bow c'l to swing clear of the mouth of the bottle to which it is attached a sucient distance to allow room for the stopper d between them. This bail is preferably formed with a re-entrant bend, c3, in the bow, and it supports a screw, e, that is hinged to it. The object of the bend c3 is to retain the screw e in the central part of the bow to get an additional spring effect, that relieves the upward pull on the pivots when the bottle is closed, and it also forms two convenient loops, that serve as means for holding and carrying the bottle on the fingers of the hand.

The screw e is made of any convenient and desirable material-as ironwith a wide thread of a sharp pitch, and the upper end of the stem hasa hole, e', through which the bail is passed to hinge it thereto, so as to allow the screw to swing upon it, but not to rotate axially of the screw.

The stopper dis made, preferably, of wood, although the particular liquid that the bottle is intended to hold will in some degree govern the choice of material; but wood or a like substance that will not deleteriously affect the contents of the bottle may be used, the screwsocket d being formed in the center of the stopper or plug and threaded to fit the thread of the screw.

On its under side the stopper may be hollowed out, with a rim or iiange, di, that fits outside of the rim a on the mouth of the bottle, as shown in Fig. 2; or it may be of a form adapted to t within this rim.

A packing' washer or disk of elastic materialas paper or rubber-may be used beneath the stopple to make an airtight or securely'- sealed joint.

The bail c, if of wire, is bent to shape, Fig. 3, by simple tools and cheap labor.

The screw e may be cast to final shape of roo iron, then cleaned and tinned, and the plug may be turned to shape in a woodworking the bottle in the process of molding it. The

machineV that produces great numbers in a Short time.

These several parts are assembled by thrusting the bail through the pivot-hole in the screw and then bending the bail to shape. The stopper is screwed upon the screw and the pivots of the bail sprung into the sockets on t-he bottle.

By turning the stopper it may be closed upon the bottle-mouth or lifted from it.

The above-described methods of making the several parts are not essential so long as the parts are capable when combined and attached to a bottle of elt'eeting the purpose de sired and outlined in a manner and by means the same in kind and effect.

I claim as my improvement* l. In combination with a bottle bearinglateral bail-sockets, a swinging bail with pivotsupports, and abow supporting a screw hinged thereto, and a stopper or plug attached to the screw by a threaded central socket, the side parts of the bail being of asufticientlength to suspend the stopper between the bow and the bottle-mouth, all substantially as described.

2. In a boti1e-stopper fastening, in combinat-ion7 a bail, c, with pivots c', and bow t2 with re-entrant bend c, a screw, e, hinged to the bow, and the stopper d, borne on the screw, all substantially as described.

3. In combination with a bottle, a bail pivoted thereto and adapted to swing across the mouth of the bottle, and a rotary stopper or plug suspended from the bow ofthe bail by a screw held against axial rotation, all substantially as described.

FREDERICK D. TAYLOR.

Vitnesses: l

Guns. L. BURDETT, H. R. WILLIAMS. 

